Sometimes I recorded the drum patterns with supertrack and send the tracks to a sound of a DX-7. Really interesting and new sequence lines came out I never could have played on my own because of the extreme short note events.

I taught myself to play from books and my sisters guitar that I used to “borrow” when she wasn’t home making sure to put it back exactly as I found it or there would be heck to pay…...At around age 10 I wrote a song for my friends Dad that had passed away. Some years after that 4 track recorders came out so that was a huge step forward. Before that we were making microphones out of small speakers and plugging them in to whatever rig we could record on…bare wires and all. (Please do not attempt this at home!). This all may or may not have happened over 40 years ago….....I”m not tellin!

I recorded my first original track Reach Out – an alt acoustic rock number (drums, bass, acoustic, vocal) on a tascam 4 track r2r around 1992 just for fun. I had been playing it live for a while but I’ll never forget the excitement of recording it, and for the first time I saw what was possible. It took me a long time to get from there to here but that sowed the seed of producing/recording for me. Now I feel like redoing that track and putting it on AJ!

Awesome stories everybody! Man that is so cute that you married her! That’s so awesome! =)

Well my first production was in january 2010 I had downloaded FL Studios and looked up some tutorials on the basics of maneuvering around and I made a hip-hop like beat on there. It wasn’t bad for a first try, I really liked it! I fell in love with producing since then. It had been a thing I wanted to do but when I had tried two years prior on Fl Studios I got overwhelmed and couldnt wrap my mind on how to use it. I was 15 turning 16 that year. I had it uploaded on 4shared and I just went to look for it but couldnt find it, I guess I must have deleted it. I’m glad that I’ve kept going with it! I love music wayy too much to stop!! =D

I don’t exactly know which one was my first song, but I give you a ridiculous sample of one of the first songs. There was no real sequenzer, so I played it live with my dad’s old Electronic Technics Organ (the bass played with my left foot!).
The fills of the drums and switching sounds I operated in realtime (you can hear it) with several levers on the organ with the right foot and the knee – Recorded on a good old 2-track Tape deck of course. I think this was between 1982-1984.

This organ was one of the first using samples, so it even had a pan flute! , but for the price it costs at this time you could buy a nice new car…

I wrote a piano piece that I never notated when I was in high school, around 1974. I can still play it, but I have never notated it or recorded it and probably never will. I was definitely in love with the sound of the maj7 chord when I wrote it.

I don’t remember how my first song is called. It was about 6-7 years ago and now I’m 21. I made a hip-hop beat and tried to rap. I was just a kid and my words were so stupid. I remember that my brother laughed at me when listen my song. But I used to think that I’m a superstar.